Since the start of the Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership scheme in March 2014 we have been in the media quite regularly.
Find below links to some of the recent articles about the OWLP scheme, our partners’ projects, or any other initiative that we have been cooperating with:
****Note that from March 2016 onwards all new articles are included in the overview on our new website, see http://ousewashes.org.uk/resources/owlp-in-the-media/ and http://ousewashes.org.uk/discover/tourism-promotion/ for up-to-date information****
Ouse Washes Landscape ‘Snap the Ouse’ Photography Competition 2016
- Cambridgeshire Chambers of Commerce, 22 Mar 2016, Win fantastic prizes and showcase your talent in this year’s Snap the Ouse photography competition!
- Cambs Times, 21 Mar 2016, Win fantastic prizes and showcase your talent in this year’s Snap the Ouse Photography Competition
- Ely News, 17 Mar 2016, Entries now being taken for Snap the Ouse Photography Competition 2016
Promotion of Ouse Washes Landscape:
- OuseNews, March 2016, 30 Reasons the Fens are so Boring and Bleak 😉
- Visit Cambridge and beyond, Ouse Washes Landscape
- ElyI Magazine, March 2016, Sara Marshall, Quirky Traditions in the Ouse Washes Landscape [see also this ElyI webpage]
- Wikipedia, Ouse Washes
- LiveLife magazine, Oct 2015, Hidden Heritage of the Ouse Washes Landscape
- EastLife, Aug 2015, Explore the River Great Ouse & the Ouse Washes Landscape [see also in the original magazine here, p119: http://issuu.com/eastmagazine/docs/august__web_/1?e=2325416%2F14351301]
- Local Secrets, 05 March 2015, Discover the Ouse Washes, a Fascinating landscape in the heart of the Fens
- Film BBC Look East 21 July 2015 – Ouse Washes & OuseFest 2015
Fen Skating Association’s OWLP project ‘skating around the Fens’ – e.g., new Fen Skating film launched:
- Cambridge Network, 10 Mar 2016, Cambridge Filmworks breaks the ice with new television documentary
- Ely Standard, 9 Mar 2016, Unique story of Fenland Ice Skaters to hit our screens this week in special documentary
- Hunts Post, 9 Mar 2016, St Ives film company to have Fenland skating documentary aired this week
- Ely News, 9 Mar 2016, New documentary produced by Cambridge Filmworks is celebrating Fenland’s ice skating
- Ely News, 8 Jan 2016, Fen skating film and treasure hunt available for schools to use as learning resource
- Fenland Citizen, 28 Dec 2015, Treat for Welney pupils before school closure
- Fen Skating Association website
Jane Frost, Fenland Story Quilt project [‘Journeys and Yarns: Navigating and Narrating the Fenland and Ouse Washes Story’] (recipient of an OWLP Community Heritage Fund grant):
- Ely News, 19 Feb 2016, Story quilt will celebrate heritage and landscape of the Ouse Washes
Red Barn Creative – project ‘Traditional Fen Arts and Crafts’ (recipient of an OWLP Community Heritage Fund grant):
- Made in the Fens: Researching, documenting and practising fen crafts – Project webpage
- Fenland Citizen, 27 Dec 2015, Getting to know the Fens . . .
WWT Welney’s project ‘Species Identification and Monitoring’:
- BBC News, 19 Jan 2016, Welney Wetland Centre winter swan count under way – short film
- Cambs Times, 4 Dec 2015, Whooper swan Wimble makes welcome return to Welney Wetland Centre
- Lynn News, 28 Jan 2015, Swans reach peak at Welney wildlife centre
- Wisbech Standard, 20 Jan 2015, More than 10,000 swans counted at WWT Welney Wetland Centre as winter migration reaches its peak
Project ‘Elements of the Landscape [photography of people managing the land in the Ouse Washes Landscape] (recipient of an OWLP Community Heritage Fund grant):
- P.J. Elements, 17 Dec 2015, P.J. Elements awarded Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership Community Heritage grant
OWLP project ‘Fen Folk, Legends and Heroes’:
- Cambs Times, 21 May 2015, March Society members explore town’s fascinating architecture during evening stroll [also announcing Mike Petty talk]
Community Heritage Fund small grants scheme – call for applicants:
- Ely News, 24 Sep 2015, Could your community project benefit from an Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership’s Community Heritage Fund grant?
- Fenland Citizen, 15 Sep 2015, Deadline looming for Fenland grants
- Ely News, 18 Feb 2015, Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership grants available for community groups in the Ely area
- Lynn News, 18 Feb 2015, Community Groups in the Norfolk Fens encouraged to apply for £2,000 grant
Ouse Washes Experience 2015 (recipient of an OWLP Community Heritage Fund grant); event to be held on 20 Sep 2015), organised by Ely Hereward Rotary Club:
- Cambridge Network, 14 Mar 2016, Headway Cambridgeshire receives generous donation from Ely-Hereward Rotary Club
- Ely Standard, 21 Sep 2015, Brilliant sunshine – and a brilliant day – for the Ouse Washes Experience and Tiger Challenge organised by Ely Rotarians
- Ely News, 21 Sep 2015, Ouse Washes Experience raises around £1,000 for Sue Ryder Grange Hall Hospice and Headway Cambridge
- Wisbech Standard, 15 Sep 2015, LETTER: Chance to enjoy a fabulous day out on the Ouse Washes at Welney
- Spotted in Ely, Aug 2015, Ouse Washes Experience – an opportunity not to be missed!
- Wisbech Standard, 21 Jul 2015, Youth teams invited to take part in the Ouse Washes Experience
- Findacure, Run, Walk or Cycle the Ouse Washes Experience for Findacure!
- 13 Apr 2015, Wisbech Standard, Book your place in a gruelling duathlon event to raise money for a Cambridgeshire head injuries charity
- 23 Mar 2015, Ely Standard, Ely schoolboy raises hundreds for Magpas in a triathlon
- 9 Mar 2015, Wisbech Standard, Now you can sign up for Ouse Washes Experience free of charge
- Ouse Washes Experience website, http://www.rotaryclubely-hereward.org/OuseWashesExperience.cfm
- Watch the incredible Ouse Washes Experience film
Cambridge Archaeological Unit, project ‘Digging Environment and Ouse Washes Community Archaeology’:
- Wisbech Standard, 18 Sep 2015, Major Neolithic and Iron Age discoveries at Ouse Washes dig [also in Ely standard, 18 Sep 2015]
- Cambridge News, 28 Aug 2015, Hidden Roman villa reveals Cambridgeshire was ‘not such a backwater’
- Cambridge News, 26 Aug 2015, Explore Roman history at Fen Drayton Lakes nature reserve
- Lynn News, 25 Jun 2015, Victorian Flat Earth trials to be held at Denver Sluice fun day
- Film of Flat Earth Trials held July 28th 2015 during OuseFest 2015: “Earth Not A Globe”: Ouse Washes Flat Earth Trials 2015
WWT project ‘Great Ouse Wetland Engagement’ – Wildlife filming workshops for volunteers:
- Fenland Citizen, 23 Aug 2015, Get closer to nature at Welney
- WWT Welney news, 4 Aug 2015, Visitors explore new video studio at Welney
- Eastern Daily Press, 01 Aug 2015, Step into David Attenborough’s shoes at west Norfolk wetland centre
- Ely News, 30 July 2015, Get interactive with nature at WWT Welney’s new wildlife film studio
- Cambs Times, 29 Jul 2015, Fly with swans, box hares or hides in reeds at WWT Welney’s new film room
- Cambs Times, 28 May 2015, WWT Welney Wetland Centre brought to life in series of films [also in Wisbech Standard, 28 May 2015 and in Ely Standard, 28 May 2015]
- EDP, 27 May 2015, Spot the birds nesting in a tractor engine
- Lynn News, 27 May 2015, Birds nest in tractor engine at Welney
- Fenland Citizen, 27 May 2015, Birds nest in tractor engine at Welney [also in Peterborough Telegraph, 27 May 2015]
- Cambs Times, 27 May 2015, Family sets up home at WWT’s Welney Wetland Centre … in a tractor engine [also in Wisbech Standard, 27 May 2015]
- WWT news, 26 May 2015, Birds nest in tractor engine
- Ely News, 14 May 2015, A chance to zoom in on UK’s tiniest beasts at WWT Welney – and see bats and owls!
- Ely Standard, 15 Feb 2015 (and also in Wisbech Standard), VIDEO: Rare footage captured of seal in New Bedford River, Cambridgeshire – 30 miles inland from The Wash, Norfolk
- Eastern Daily Press, 19 Jan 2015, A year in the life of a magical place in west Norfolk
- Fenland Citizen, 18 Jan 2015, Could you film the wildlife at Welney? [also in Lynn News, 18 Jan 2015]
- Wisbech Standard, 15 Jan 2015, WWT Welney Wetland Centre asking volunteers to gather footage for major film project documenting year there [also in Cambs Times, 15 January 2015]
- Lynn News, 15 Jan 2015, Invitation to film at Welney wetland Centre
- Ely News, 15 Jan 2015, WWT Welney calls on volunteers to get involved with its new wildlife project
- Visit Norfolk Fens website – which embeds the new WWT Welney film: http://www.visitnorfolk.co.uk/explore/The-Fens.aspx
- WWT info on project: http://www.wwt.org.uk/news/all-news/2014/12/wwt-welney-news/a-year-in-the-life-of-the-great-ouse-wetlands/ and http://www.wwt.org.uk/wetland-centres/welney/news/2015/01/wwt-welney-news/help-us-document-a-year-on-the-great-ouse-wetland/
- Great Ouse Wetland Diary – overview of all videos created as part of the project: http://www.wwt.org.uk/wetland-centres/welney/great-ouse-wetland/great-ouse-wetland-diary/
- Project Website – about the Great Ouse Wetland project – includes the ‘Great Ouse Wetland diary’, ‘volunteering’ and ‘wildlife filming workshops’ subpages’ : http://www.wwt.org.uk/wetland-centres/welney/great-ouse-wetland/
- Films created as part of the Great Ouse Wetland project – watch these at the dedicated OWLP YouTube ‘Great Ouse Wetland’ playlist, or through the WWT YouTube site
West Norfolk and King’s Lynn Archaeological Society (recipient of an OWLP Community Heritage Fund grant); project ‘Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership Community Archaeology (Norfolk)’:
- Your Local Paper, 18 Sep 2015, A future in Archaeology
- Lynn News, 13 Aug 2015, Mole hill yields important historical discovery in Hilgay
- Lynn News, 7 Aug 2015, No threshing about at Hilgay show
- Lynn News, 29 July 2015, Vintage tractors and more at Hilgay
- Culture 24, 22 June 2015, Community archaeology quest begins for remains of 13th century Benedictine Priory in Norfolk
- Lynn News, 11 Jun 2015, Earthworks gives insight into medieval Hilgay
- Lynn News, 3 Jun 2015, Archaeologists looking at Hilgay manor
- Lynn News, 23 Mar 2015, Chance to become archaeologist for the day in Hilgay
- Project website: http://fenedge.greyhawk.org.uk/main.php
West Norfolk Rowing Club: Taster rowing sessions during OuseFest 2015 and creation of film of Denver sluice Complex area ((recipient of an OWLP Community Heritage Fund grant):
- West Norfolk Rowing Club at Denver Sluice Complex , 28 July 2015, OuseFest – Film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZN_uPLd_Dc&list=PLnrnf7GefRwZc6MWA6Z4l-LR3aNIPmPQ9&index=1
OuseFest 2015 (20 July – 02 August 2015):
- Film OuseFest at Denver Sluice: 28 July 2015
- Film BBC Look East 21 July 2015 – Ouse Washes & OuseFest 2015
- Spotted in Ely, 5 Aug 2015, OuseFest2015: a huge success
- Ely News, 3 Aug 2015, OuseFest: Residents learn more about local churches during open days
- Eastern Daily Press, 1 Aug 2015, Step into David Attenborough’s shoes at west Norfolk wetland centre
- Ely News, 30 Jul 2015, Get interactive with nature at WWT Welney’s new wildlife film studio
- Lynn News, 30 Jul 2015, Denver Sluice flooded with people at open day
- Cambridge News, 30 Jul 2015, 10 things to do with the family in Cambridge (July 30 – August 6)
- Lynn News, 29 Jul 2015, Vintage tractors and more at Hilgay
- Ely Standard, 27 Jul 2015, Climbing high at Ouse Fest fun day at Mepal
- Ely News, 27 Jul 2015, Ousefest family fun day at Mepal Outdoor Centre draws in the crowds
- Cambs Times, 27 Jul 2015, Pond dipping area is officially opened at Manea
- Ely News, 23 Jul 2015, OuseFest 2015: Open days at parish churches of Coveney, Sutton, Witcham and Mepal
- Lynn News, 23 Jul 2015, Cooking eels at Denver Sluice fun day
- Ely News, 22 Jul 2015, OuseFest 2015 – events at locations across the region from now until August 2
- Wisbech Standard, 22 Jul 2015, Making a splash at a gala fun day in Welney
- Eastern Daily Press, 21 Jul 2015, Fenland’s Ark! This floating church came to you in Victorian West Norfolk
- Cambs Times, 21 Jul 2015, Manea celebrates opening of £9,000 project this weekend [also in Wisbech Standard]
- Fenland Citizen, 16 Jul 2015, Splashing out at Welney
- Wisbech Standard, 15 Jul 2015, Fascinating Fenland Ark story revived for OuseFest
- Wisbech Standard, 15 Jul 2015, Yvette is wired for sculpture workshop at Welney
- Cambs Times, 10 Jul 2015, OuseFest: Celebrate history, wildlife and habitats of Ouse Washes with fortnight of activities
- Wisbech Standard, 1 July 2015, Fenland Poet Laureate organising day of poetry at Welney Wetland Centre to mark Ouse Fest [also in Ely Standard]
- Lynn News, 25 Jun 2015, Victorian Flat Earth trials to be held at Denver Sluice fun day
- Local Secrets – Cambridge, 16 Jun 2015, OuseFest is coming! Explore the unique Ouse Washes Landscape
- Fox Narrowboats, 14 Jun 2015, 5 Things you are going to love about #OuseFest at Denver Sluice!
- Ely News, 10 Jun 2015, Althea Braithwaite’s stunning glass work goes on show at Ely Stained Glass Museum [Note: delivered for OuseFest]
- Visit Cambridge website, OuseFest
- Spotted in Ely, Explore the distinctive and beautiful Ouse Washes at this summer’s OuseFest!
- VisitEly, OuseFest 2015
- Cambridge with Kids, OuseFest
- Prickwillow Engine Trust, the Museum of Fenland Drainage – promotion of OuseFest, including their Family Fun Day on 26 July 2015
- Term Times magazine, spring 2015 edition – see page 3 for advert for OuseFest: http://termtimes.ltd.uk/magazine/spring
- ElyI magazine, May/June 2015 edition – see advert for OuseFest on page 8: http://issuu.com/bridgethickish/docs/elyimay2015issuu?e=12469991/12424908
- OuseFest 2015 page on the ousewashes.org.uk website: http://ousewashes.org.uk/ousefest/ – you can also download the programme brochure from this link, or get one of the 15,000 hard copies through a large number of outlets across the Ouse Washes Landscape
- Follow the dedicated Twitter account: @OuseFest
Photo Competition for Ouse Washes Landscape, spring/summer 2015:
- Wisbech Standard, 13 Aug 2015, Simon and Ewan’s snaps win Ouse Washes photography competition
- Eastern Daily Press, 18 Jun 2015, Online vote opens for Fenland photo competition
- Ely News, 17 Jun 2015, Vote for your favourite Snap the Ouse Photography Competition entry
- Promotion on localsecrets.com: Snap the Ouse photography competition
- Promotion on Willingham Photo Club: Snap the Ouse Competition
- Ely Standard, 8 May 2015, Budding photographers urged to Snap the Ouse for a chance to win
- Our St Ives, 8 May 2015, Calling young photographers – exciting competition
- Lynn News, 27 Mar 2015, Ouse … and ahhs!
- Ely News, 19 Mar 2015, Snap the Ouse Photography Competition: Calling all local photographers!
- Hemingford Grey Parish Council, 18 Mar 2015, Snap the Ouse Photography Competition
- Ely Standard, 17 Mar 2015, Ouse Washes photography competition launched which will celebrate landscapes, wildlife and people
- Cambs Times, 17 Mar 2015, Ouse Washes photography competition launched which will celebrate landscapes, wildlife and people
- Photo competition page on ousewashes.org.uk website: http://ousewashes.org.uk/get-involved/competitions/
Fen Speak (recipient of an OWLP Community Heritage Fund grant) – poetry events:
- Wisbech Standard, 1 July 2015, Fenland Poet Laureate organising day of poetry at Welney Wetland Centre to mark Ouse Fest [also in Ely Standard]
- Atelier East, Words on Water: Poetry & the Ouse Washes
Chatteris Museum (recipient of an OWLP Community Heritage Fund grant) – opening of new exhibition:
- Culture 24, Jun 2015, “Very rare” examples of “huge wealth”: Chatteris Museum’s Bronze Age shield and rapier
- Fenland Citizen, 9 Jun 2015, Well known archaeologists open Chatteris exhibition
Welney Pavilion Action Team (recipient of OWLP Community Heritage Fund grant) – molly dancing, story telling and Welney Water Gala
- Wisbech Standard, 22 Jul 2015, Making a splash at a gala fun day in Welney
- Fenland Citizen, 16 Jul 2015, Splashing out at Welney
St Ives Town Team (recipient of an OWLP Community Heritage Fund grant); The Old Riverport St Ives Discovery Day – to be held 25 July 2015:
- Welcome to the Old Riverport, St Ives website – includes overview of their events on Sat 25 July, as part of OuseFest: http://www.theoldriverportstives.co.uk/
Manea Community Conservation Project:
- Cambs Times, 27 Jul 2015, Pond dipping area is officially opened at Manea
- Cambs Times, 21 Jul 2015, Manea celebrates opening of £9,000 project this weekend [also in Wisbech Standard]
Green Light Trust’s project ‘Community Warden Scheme’:
- 2014 Annual review, Green Light Trust, p. 15: http://www.greenlighttrust.org/templates/docs/GreenLightTrust%20A5%20Annual%20Review-2014.pdf
Denver Sluice Complex – Consultation organised by the Environment Agency as part of their ‘Destination Denver’ project:
- Ely Standard, 24 Mar 2015, New vision for Denver sluice unveiled
- Eastern Daily Press, 20 Mar 2015, Ice skating is set to return to the Fens [also in Wisbech Standard]
- Press release on gov.uk website, 18 Mar 2015, A New Vision for the Denver Sluice Complex – Public event to be held on Thursday 19 March
- Lynn News, 17 Mar 2015, Denver Sluice ideas put forward
- Eastern Daily Press, 16 Mar 2015, A new vision for one of west Norfolk’s most important flood management areas is set to be unveiled to the public
- Cambs Times, 13 Mar 2015, Denver Sluice could be turned into visitor destination with water sports, improved moorings and riding trails [also in Wisbech Standard, 13 March 2015]
Fens Museum Partnership, in cooperation with Rosmini Centre – project ‘Tales of Washes, Wildfowl & Water’:
- Animated Film, The Ouse Washes
Cambridgeshire ACRE – project Ouse Washes Annual Conference:
- Film of the conference held in St Ives, Corn Exchange, on 19 November 2014, CONSERVATION, FARMING, FLOODING – OUR NATURAL LANDSCAPE? : ‘Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership Conference 19 November 2014’
Announcement of the OWLP’s new website www.ousewashes.org.uk:
- Cambridgeshire Chambers of Commerce, 24 Dec 2014, New website promoting the Ouse Washes Landscape just launched!
OWLP’s training course (26 Sep 2014) on non-native invasive plant species in local waterways:
- Fenland Citizen, 18 Sep 2014, Invasive Plant Workshop
- Wisbech Standard, 16 Sep 2014, Building firm steps in to fence off a pond at Elm
Workshops for ADeC’s project, ‘Ouse Community Murals’, held Jul – Oct 2014:
- Babylon Arts, Ouse Washes (OWLP) [about project results]
- Ely News, 11 Nov 2014, Ouse Washes mosaics will be on show at WWT Welney
- Ely Standard, 11 Sep 2014, Drop-in workshops will help celebrate the beauty of the Ouse Washes
- Ely News, 28 Aug 2014, Slideshow: Children’s mosaics will form new Ouse Washes themed murals
- Ely News, 22 Aug 2014, Get creative with mosaics at Mepal Outdoor Centre
- Ely Standard, 20 Aug 2014, Learn how to put together a mosaic at unique workshop
- Project’s Facebook page: see https://www.facebook.com/OWLPCommunityMurals for more information about this project
- ADeC, Ouse Washes Mosaics on show, http://www.adec.org.uk/index.php?adec/eventdetail/ouse_washes_mosaics_on_show and http://www.adec.org.uk/index.php?adec/eventdetail/ouse_washes_community_murals_project
Event organised by Ely Hereward Rotary Club, the ‘Ouse Washes Experience’ held within the OWLP area on 21 Sep 2014:
- Fenland Citizen, 23 Nov 2014, Ouse Washes challenge by Wisbech solicitors
- Wisbech Standard, 2 Oct 2014, March Specsavers staff get active to raise more than £700 for Magpas and East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices
- Ely Standard, 24 Sep 2014, Inaugural Ouse Washes event raises more than £1,000
- MP Steve Barclay’s blog, 23 Sep 2014, Opening up the Fenland countryside
- Ely Standard, 8 Sep 2014, Xander and Ted saddle up for Ouse Washes ride
- Ely News, 5 Sep 2014, Ely schoolboy Xander Brown signs up for Ouse Washes Experience event in aid of Magpas
- Wisbech Standard, 22 Aug 2014, Runners, walkers and cyclists urged to sign up for Ouse Washes Experience
- Cambridge News, 29 Jan 2014, Ely Hereward Rotary Club organise huge sponsored cycle and run
Launch of the small grants scheme, the Community Heritage Fund, June 2014:
- Ely News, 11 Jun 2014, Could a Community Heritage Fund grant help get your project off the ground?
- Lynn News, 11 Jun 2014, Grant scheme celebrates west Norfolk river
Announcement of OWLP partnership launch, April 2014:
- Ely News, 03 Apr 2014, Ouse Washes Partnership launches events programme
Following stage 2 grant announcement, March 2014:
- Ely News, 12 Mar 2014, £900k boost for Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership
- Wisbech Standard, 12 Mar 2014, Ouse Washes receives £900,000 lottery grant for conservation work, research and community projects
- Connected magazine (Ely Chamber News), May 2014, Ouse Washes area secures funding
- Fenland Citizen, 4 Apr 2014, £900,000 lottery grant for Ouse Washes project
Following stage 1 grant announcement, 2012:
- Cambs Times, 23 Jul 2012, Lottery Boost for Ouse Washes
Do you know of any other articles, e.g. published in local parish magazines or elsewhere about our scheme? If so, please send me an email with the link (mark.nokkert@cambsacre.org.uk) – Many thanks for your help!